New divide in the Trump clan. After the inter-Republican confrontation in Congress over the raising of the debt ceiling, it is the alliance – somewhat unnatural – between the MAGA base (Make America Great Again) and the right of Silicon Valley which is under attack on legal immigration and the place to be given, in the American economy, to foreign engineers.
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The feud began on December 22, 2024, when Donald Trump announced the appointment of Indian-origin investor Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence (AI) to the White House Office of Science and Technology, a department strategic at the start of a year when the American authorities will have to decide on the supervision of AI. He will work with David Sacks, another San Francisco investor named Dec. 5 by the president-elect as « tsar » for AI and cryptocurrencies, and born in South Africa, like Elon Musk.
Engineer by training, formerly of Microsoft and Facebook, architect of the implementation of Elon Musk's projects after the acquisition of Twitter, become host, with his wife, of a podcast popular among his peers, Sriram Krishnan, 40 years old , is a pure product of the libertarian inner circle of Silicon Valley. Recently, he was stationed in London where he opened the British branch of the a16z investment firm of Marc Andreessen, another tech figure seduced by Trump and his promises of tax cuts and deregulation of cryptocurrencies. The engineer took the opportunity to put Elon Musk and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in contact.
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